Civil engineering, surveying and building

This book explores the practice of Nature-Based Solutions (NBS) in the cities of the Global South.

This book presents the select proceedings of the First Women Indian Geotechnical Conference (WIGC) 2024 showcasing the overarching theme of "e;Geotechnics for Sustainable and Resilient Infrastructure.

This proceedings volume presents a collection of articles from key practitioners from relevant areas with experience in critical infrastructure.

This book examines the detrimental impact of electronic waste on human health, animal welfare, and environmental ecosystems.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of construction engineering and architecture, as presented by researchers at the II International Scientific Conference "e;Recent Advances in Architecture and Construction"e;, held in Kazan, Russia, on May 14-15, 2024.

ICOLD Bulletin 165, Selection of Materials for Concrete in Dams, is dedicated to the choice of hydraulic binders and mineral additions as well as adjuvants and waste water.

This book presents the select proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Construction, Real Estate, Infrastructure, and Project Management (ICCRIP 2023) and explores recent and innovative developments in all aspects of the CRIP sector.

This book provides guidelines for the planning, design and construction of rural roads in hilly regions.

The use of green engineering materials represents a promising approach to sustainable development.

Destacan en este libro, por la originalidad en su planteamiento y la novedad de sus conclusiones, los temas relativos a los esfuerzos cortantes combinados con la flexión, la fatiga por cargas repetidas y el pandeo lateral en vigas, la incidencia de las deformaciones diferidas en la estabilidad de las columnas esbeltas, y los procedimientos numéricos simplificados para evaluar el margen de seguridad apropiado a las distintas piezas de la estructura que se considera.

This book offers comprehensive insight into recent advances in geopolymer composites and emerging processing technologies such as 3D printing that offer promising application prospects in a wide range of industries.

The conservation of built heritage implies constant intervention.

River Flow 2024 features keynote lectures and contributed papers presented at the 12th International Conference on Fluvial Hydraulics, held from September 2nd to 6th, 2024, in Liverpool.

This book deals with hygrothermal building component simulation, fire, sound, daylight and building simulation as well as with urban climate and the flow of people simulation.

Geomechanical Aspects of Abandoned Room and Pillar Mines and Remediation Measures addresses the occurrence, prediction, and control of subsidence issues encountered in room and pillar mining, including creep, degradation, and seismic aspects.

Landscape as Dialogue redefines the process of understanding landscapes for students and practi-tioners so they can create more integrated, healthy places.

As cyber threat actors have become more sophisticated, data breaches, phishing attacks, and ransomware are increasing, and the global cybercrime damage in 2021 was $16.

Destacan en este libro, por la originalidad en su planteamiento y la novedad de sus conclusiones, los temas relativos a los esfuerzos cortantes combinados con la flexión, la fatiga por cargas repetidas y el pandeo lateral en vigas, la incidencia de las deformaciones diferidas en la estabilidad de las columnas esbeltas, y los procedimientos numéricos simplificados para evaluar el margen de seguridad apropiado a las distintas piezas de la estructura que se considera.

Innovations in the Analysis and Design of Marine Structures is a collection of papers presented at MARSTRUCT 2025, the 10th International Conference on Marine Structures (MARSTRUCT 2025, Lisbon, Portugal, 20-22 May 2025).

This book reflects the latest research trends, methods and experimental results in the field of Artificial Intelligence and Autonomous Transportation, which covers abundant state-of-the-art research theories and ideas.

This book introduces innovative methods and new insights, offering a comprehensive exploration of cognitive mobility's diverse dimensions.

This book covers the essential information needed to understand the latest developments of solid-state welding and processing of metallic materials, including physical metallurgy, production technologies, alloy development, compositing, post-processing, and joining methodologies.

The book is a concise presentation of different applications of the electrocoagulation treatment process involved in the removal of both organic and inorganic contaminants from drinking and industrial wastewater.

This book offers a long-overdue analysis of the ubiquity of eco-apocalypticism in current discourses on the climate crisis.

A comprehensive introductory textbook that integrates environmental ethics with social and religious perspectives, this cross-disciplinary approach helps students understand the depth and breadth of environmental issues in a globally relevant way.

This book explains the role of geology as the basis of sustainability.

This book investigates authenticity, an important but controversial cultural concept, and its relevance for urban socio-spatial processes.

Materials usually show anomalous behaviors at ultra-low temperatures.

The latest edition of the JCT guide series provides an indispensable resource for architects navigating the JCT Minor Works Contract suite 2024.

This volume contains peer-reviewed and selected papers presented during the International Conference on Environmental Geotechnology, Recycled Waste Materials, and Sustainable Engineering 2024, held in Warsaw, Poland.

The fresh water supplies of the Earth are finite and as the world's population continues to grow humanity's thirst for this water seems unquenchable.

Offering broad coverage of both basic and advanced principles and applications, Control of Heavy Metals in the Environment series provides environmental and chemical engineers with the most complete resources available on the remediation of heavy metal contaminants with an emphasis on innovative approaches.

This book constructs a number of discourses, dialectics and analyses across the disciplines of urban form, architecture and urban experience, thus incorporating both conservation and design issues.

Steel fiber reinforced concrete (SFRC) for structures dates back to 1925, yet it remains largely unknown to many engineers and contractors.

This book is a unique text that illustrates and describes all the nominal genera of Cretaceous ammonites and their Jurassic progenitors on the basis of their type species.

This book presents select proceedings of the 7th Conference of Transportation Research Group of India (7th CTRG, 2023) and provides an opportunity for discussion of state-of-the-art research and practice in the developing world for achieving equitable, efficient, and resilient infrastructure and opens pathways to sustainable transportation.